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We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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The history of life was not the bumbling progress - the very English, middle-class progress - Victorian thought had wanted it to be, but violent, a thing of dramatic, cumulative transformations: in the old formulation, more revolution than evolution.
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I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture.
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As I look back, I feel a touch of pride at my younger self's dedication to literature, which gave him the strength of mind to resist the blandishments of the enemies of promise. The sirens of ad-land sang sweetly and seductively, but I thought of Odysseus lashing himself to the mast of his ship, and somehow stayed on course.
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Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
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The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere.
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No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.
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I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.
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In an ideal world, you could reunite the Pakistan-occupied part of Kashmir with the Indian-occupied part and restore the old borders. You could have both India and Pakistan agreeing to guarantee those borders, demilitarise the area, and to invest in it economically. In a sane world that would happen, but we don't live in a sane world.
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Rohinton Mistry's celebrated novel 'Such a Long Journey' was pulled off the syllabus of Mumbai University because local extremists objected to its content.
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I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.
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I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.
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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
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Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free.
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India is my kid sister.
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You don't fight radical conservatism with not-quite-so radical conservatism.
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One minute you've got a lucky star watching over you and the next instant it's done a bunk.
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Things, even people have a way of leaking into each other like flavours when you cook.
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Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow clumsy, error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path.
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The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.
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I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are perhaps greater than the things that divide us.
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